Royal Wedding Fruit Cake

A cake of that size served more than 2 000 people.

Royal wedding fruit cake. The beauty of using a fruitcake for the royal wedding is having more time to work on decorations. The duke and duchess of cambridge had two cakes made for their 2011 nuptials. Sure it was a fruitcake but it was a 9 foot tall 500 pound fruit cake. The palace even.

The first was a magnificent eight tiered iced traditional fruit cake featuring the. A wedding was and is to this day a time of celebration and as such it calls for a cake to match the occasion dodd says. The wedding cake for prince william and catherine middleton s wedding known from their wedding day as the duke and duchess of cambridge was made by fiona cairns. Fruit recipes seafood recipes.

The cake was a eight tiered traditional fruit cake which stood at 3ft tall. Alright a queen s wedding cake is an entirely different story. In an interview with town country the baker behind prince william and kate middleton s wedding cake shared that it took their team several days to decorate the cake. Wedding fruitcake was also initially embraced by american colonists.

The actual cake was baked in march giving the cake two months to mature and. A slice of wedding cake from the wedding of wallis simpson and the duke of windsor sold for 29 900 in 1998. The great thing about making a fruit cake is that it can be made well in advance of the big day. The founder of violet bakery and official royal wedding cake baker is putting together prince harry and meghan markle s lemon elderflower cake.

For this recipe. Last june julien s auctions in los angeles sold five slices of royal wedding cake. Cairns showed nightline s nick watt the plans for prince william and kate middleton s royal wedding cake which will be a multi tiered traditional fruit cake with white icing.